Industrial Robot: Volume 48 Issue 6

Dr Homayoon Kazerooni: Professor at UC-Berkeley, pioneer of exoskeletons, founder and CEO of U.S. Bionics (DBA suitX), founder Ekso Bionics

Joanne Pransky

The following paper is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience…

Advances in robotic prostheses

Rob Bogue

This paper aims to provide details of recent advances in robotic prostheses with the emphasis on the control and sensing technologies.

Probabilistic vehicle trajectory prediction via driver characteristic and intention estimation model under uncertainty

Jinxin Liu, Hui Xiong, Tinghan Wang, Heye Huang, Zhihua Zhong, Yugong Luo

For autonomous vehicles, trajectory prediction of surrounding vehicles is beneficial to improving the situational awareness of dynamic and stochastic traffic environments, which…

Obstacle detection based on depth fusion of lidar and radar in challenging conditions

Guotao Xie, Jing Zhang, Junfeng Tang, Hongfei Zhao, Ning Sun, Manjiang Hu

To the industrial application of intelligent and connected vehicles (ICVs), the robustness and accuracy of environmental perception are critical in challenging conditions…

Self-protective motion planning for mobile manipulators in a dynamic door-closing workspace

Chuande Liu, Bingtuan Gao, Chuang Yu, Adriana Tapus

Many work conditions require manipulators to open cabinet doors and then gain access to the desired workspace. However, after opening, the unlocked doors can easily close…

Obstacle negotiation analysis of track-legged robot based on terramechanics

Zhu Hongbiao, Yueming Liu, Weidong Wang, Zhijiang Du

This paper aims to present a new method to analyze the robot’s obstacle negotiation based on the terramechanics, where the terrain physical parameters, the sinkage and the…

Development of a novel robotic hand with soft materials and rigid structures

Yongyao Li, Ming Cong, Dong Liu, Yu Du, Minjie Wu, Clarence W. de Silva

Rigid robotic hands are generally fast, precise and capable of exerting large forces, whereas soft robotic hands are compliant, safe and adaptive to complex environments. It is…

A new approach for hybrid (PID + MRAC) adaptive controller applied to two-axes McKibben muscle manipulator: a mechanism for human-robot collaboration

Marcelo Henrique Souza Bomfim, Eduardo José Lima II, Neemias Silva Monteiro, Vinícius Avelino Sena

This paper aims to present a new approach, called hybrid model reference adaptive controller or H-MRAC, for the hybrid controller (proportional-integral-derivative [PID + MRAC]…

A cloud-edge-terminal-based robotic system for airport runway inspection

Zhongcheng Gui, Xinran Zhong, Yuchen Wang, Tangjie Xiao, Yongjun Deng, Hui Yang, Rui Yang

This paper aims to present a novel robotic system for airport pavement inspection tasks.

From CAD design to robot models and simulation tools. Test-case example using the Kassow 810 collaborative robot

J. Norberto Pires, Carlos Ye Zhu

This paper aims to introduce, in a tutorial form, a collection of procedures, tools and applications that can be used to explore robotics fundamentals and automatically generate…

Design and optimization of actuator for multi-joint soft rehabilitation glove

Xinjie Wang, Yan Cheng, Huadong Zheng, Yihao Li, Caidong Wang

Currently, rehabilitation medical care is expensive, requires a large number of rehabilitation therapist and which can only limit in the fixed location. In addition, there is a…

Estimation of gravity parameters for multi-DOF serial manipulator arms using model learning with sparsity inducing norms

Chenglong Yu, Zhiqi Li, Dapeng Yang, Hong Liu, Alan F. Lynch

This study aims to propose a novel method based on model learning with sparsity inducing norms for estimating dynamic gravity terms of the serial manipulators. This method is…

Hybrid oscillator-based no-delay hip exoskeleton control for free walking assistance

Wei Yang, Linghui Xu, Linfan Yu, Yuting Chen, Zehao Yan, Canjun Yang

Walking-aid exoskeletons can assist and protect effectively the group with lower limb muscle strength decline, workers, first responders and military personnel. However, there is…

Dexterity analysis and intelligent trajectory planning of redundant dual arms for an upper body humanoid robot

Shifa Sulaiman, A.P. Sudheer

Most of the redundant dual-arm robots are singular free, dexterous and collision free compared to other robotic arms. This paper aims to analyse the workspace of redundant arms to…